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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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    #602
    Sunflower 27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    Dog poo
    Graffiti (words usually spelt wrong and a penis or two)


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    #603
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Main streets without a bookshop.


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    #604
    Sunflower 27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Main streets without a bookshop.

    Bookshop??? Wot dat? :D


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    #605
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Rushing home from the Chipper to watch Britain's Got Talent, that Ant & Dec Saturday show, The X Factor etc.


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    #606
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Community Centres full stop.

    This came up before, it's a nonsense.
    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Rushing home from the Chipper to watch Britain's Got Talent, that Ant & Dec Saturday show, The X Factor etc.

    How is this an area?
    Walter H Price wrote: »
    was the first in "me Community" to go to collage

    Maybe you should have been first to go to adult literacy lessons, unless of course you did mean that you did art?


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    #607
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    This came up before, it's a nonsense.



    How is this an area?



    Maybe you should have been first to go to adult literacy lessons, unless of course you did mean that you did art?

    Dyslexic, holds hands up


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    #608
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,986 ✭✭✭conorhal


    One of these in every window.... no, not the cat...


    5219170592_763dd8ddc7_b.jpg


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    #609
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Sunflower 27 wrote: »
    Bookshop??? Wot dat? :D

    i tink its waaaa rich priks kall de bookies.


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    #610
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,758 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Dyslexic, holds hands up

    Isn't that usually a sign of a bad area.


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    #611
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    conorhal wrote: »
    One of these in every window....


    5219170592_763dd8ddc7_b.jpg

    Cats = Poor Old Ladies

    Poor Old Ladies = A Kip.


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    #612
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    The local corner shop sells loose cigarettes.
    Painted over graffiti
    Men in tracksuit bottoms and Nike Air Max.
    Adults outside their houses in the afternoon drinking cans (I remember house hunting and viewing a place in an area where every house had people outside it drinking, at 3pm in the afternoon).
    Men working on cars in their front gardens.
    Jack Russels


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    #613
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    conorhal wrote: »
    One of these in every window....


    5219170592_763dd8ddc7_b.jpg

    Yes , WTF is that i see it all over the place on the bus in and out of work through Cabra and there a wallpaper shop near the office in town that sells em.
    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    Isn't that usually a sign of a bad area.

    I don't think so at all , pretty sure its just a learning issue i'm from a solidly middle class family in a pretty nice area , just struggle with spelling to be honest, hasn't overly held me back career wise either.


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    #614
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,588 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    conorhal wrote: »
    One of these in every window....


    5219170592_763dd8ddc7_b.jpg

    Cats? A cat for every room in the house?

    Ah, those weird matching statue yokes. Classsss-y.


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    #615
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    keano_afc wrote: »
    The local corner shop sells loose cigarettes.

    Does that actually happen in Ireland?

    I remember being in rural India years ago and being amazed that they did that there in those shops that are a basically a shipping container on its side.


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    #616
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Glenster wrote: »
    Does that actually happen in Ireland?

    I remember being in rural India years ago and being amazed that they did that there in those shops that are a basically a shipping container on its side.

    Yep, our local shop when I was younger sold "loose".

    EDIT: yes, I was from a rough area.


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    #617
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,986 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Yes , WTF is that i see it all over the place on the bus in and out of work through Cabra and there a wallpaper shop near the office in town that sells em.

    :pac:

    There's quite a good short youtube doc about it!



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    #618
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,758 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Walter H Price wrote: »
    I don't think so at all , pretty sure its just a learning issue i'm from a solidly middle class family in a pretty nice area , just struggle with spelling to be honest, hasn't overly held me back career wise either.



    I was making a joke about the "holds hands up" piece. In reference to being asked to hold hands up by police.

    Anyway your bragging about your "solidly middle class family" is cringe inducing.


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    #619
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    I was making a joke about the "holds hands up" piece. In reference to being asked to hold hands up by police.

    Anyway your bragging about your "solidly middle class family" is cringe inducing.

    apologies if i misinterpreted what you were saying


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    #620
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Solicitors that specialise in 'compensation' claims advertising in local ' free ' newspapers.

    County council Housing departments or Housing Associations having satellite offices in the town.


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    #621
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,189 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    degsie wrote: »
    The name: Bally(anything)

    Ballyfyerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmuth!


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    #622
    fg1406
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭fg1406


    People in their pyjamas during the day
    Pubs that have no windows or keep their window shutters closed 24/7
    Busses stop going into the area after dark
    "Shops" set up in portacabins/shipping containers
    Feral kids roaming the streets 24/7
    Burned out cars
    Boarded up houses
    Horses roaming freely
    People disposing of household rubbish via bonfire on the green
    Crime scene unit visiting the area on an almost weekly basis
    'Ra were the local "law" enforcers

    (I lived in an area like this and all of the above is based on first hand experience)


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    #623
    Sunflower 27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    I was from a tough area, although not in Ireland. I grew up seeing 'Bong on (insert name of town)' graffiti everywhere.

    Its somewhat surprising 'bong' wasn't my first word :)


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    #624
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Random Barking
    Pedestrian Flyovers that have high inward curving bars
    A tacky looking local church


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    #625
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,758 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Random Barking
    Pedestrian Flyovers that have high inward curving bars
    A tacky looking local church

    All churches are tacky tawdry places.


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    #626
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Random Barking

    Lol.


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    #627
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    A tiny proportion of hipsters, desperately hoping that area will become the new Hipster hotspot.


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    #628
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    When your child is the only one in the class without ADHD.

    When your child comes home having learnt another 'European or African' language that is not Irish/French /German.

    When the first question a Pharmacist or Doctor's receptionist asks you is
    'Do you have a medical card'.


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    #629
    jjbrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    fg1406 wrote: »
    People in their pyjamas during the day


    "Shops" set up in portacabins/shipping containers



    Crime scene unit visiting the area on an almost weekly basis


    Looks like craggy island makes the list then ?width=630&version=2048675


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    #630
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Grown men wearing football jerseys


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    #631
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Grown men wearing football jerseys

    Yes, Man Utd/Liverpool/Celtic, never League of Ireland teams. And these that wear British club shirts are those that are anti-British in other areas of life.


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